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Jul 2, 2013 at 7:25 history edited Waffle's Crazy Peanut CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jun 6, 2013 at 5:28 history closed Waffle's Crazy Peanut
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Jun 3, 2013 at 13:17 comment added Emilio Pisanty Related: Satellite power.
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May 28, 2013 at 2:47 comment added Albert Renshaw @BrandonEnright Ah! No, I'm talking about dragging a wire through the magnetic field (to induce the faraday effect)
May 28, 2013 at 2:37 comment added Brandon Enright Indeed the Earth's magnetic field is available well beyond the atmosphere of the Earth. It sounded like your question was about generating electricity from the charged particles in the ionosphere, not from the Earth's magnetic field.
May 28, 2013 at 2:33 comment added Albert Renshaw @BrandonEnright Isn't earth's magnetic field avaliable in the upper-atmoshpere? Anyways, I don't know how to mark this as a duplicate, I might not have unlocked that ability yet with such low reputation.
May 28, 2013 at 2:20 comment added Brandon Enright Your question was about dragging a wire through the upper atmosphere rather than just through Earth's magnetic field. Does that other question actually answer your question? If so we should mark this as a duplicate.
May 28, 2013 at 2:12 comment added Albert Renshaw @BrandonEnright This link in that question is just what I was looking for! www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html
May 27, 2013 at 23:25 history asked Albert Renshaw CC BY-SA 3.0